On language. Edited, with an introd. and notes, by Abraham Tauber. Foreword by James Pitman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Philosophical Library [c1963]Description: xxvii, 205 p. illus., facsims. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 421.42
LOC classification:
  • PE1072 .S5 1963
Contents:
English and American dialects -- Spelling reform v. phonetic spelling, a plea for speech nationalisation -- Phonetic spelling, a reply to some criticisms -- Notes on the Clarendon Press rules for compositors and readers -- The simplified spelling proposals -- excerpt from Pygmalion and Preface to Pygmalion, a professor of phonetics -- Spoken English and broken English -- A king's spelling, letters and sounds -- The author as manual laborer -- From Bernard Shaw -- Mr. Bernard Shaw's appeal for a British alphabet -- Orthography of the bomb, save as you spell -- Bernard Shaw on ootomatik speling -- Colossal labor saving, an open letter from Bernard Shaw -- A forty-letter British alfabet -- excerpts from Preface by George Bernard Shaw to The miraculous birth of language -- Spelling reform, extract from the official report, excerpts from Debate on the Spelling Reform Bill in the House of Commons -- Westminster phonetics, spelling reform as a time-saver -- The problem of a common language -- A letter and postcards dealing with auxiliary and international languages / George Bernard Shaw -- Excerpts from Bernard Shaw's Will -- On the Will of Bernard Shaw, excerpts from decision by Lord Justice Charles Harman -- Comments on the decision in re Shaw's Will ; My fair ladies, and gentlemen ; Introduction to Shaw's alphabet ; On the Shaw and initial teaching alphabets / Sir James Pitman.
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English and American dialects -- Spelling reform v. phonetic spelling, a plea for speech nationalisation -- Phonetic spelling, a reply to some criticisms -- Notes on the Clarendon Press rules for compositors and readers -- The simplified spelling proposals -- excerpt from Pygmalion and Preface to Pygmalion, a professor of phonetics -- Spoken English and broken English -- A king's spelling, letters and sounds -- The author as manual laborer -- From Bernard Shaw -- Mr. Bernard Shaw's appeal for a British alphabet -- Orthography of the bomb, save as you spell -- Bernard Shaw on ootomatik speling -- Colossal labor saving, an open letter from Bernard Shaw -- A forty-letter British alfabet -- excerpts from Preface by George Bernard Shaw to The miraculous birth of language -- Spelling reform, extract from the official report, excerpts from Debate on the Spelling Reform Bill in the House of Commons -- Westminster phonetics, spelling reform as a time-saver -- The problem of a common language -- A letter and postcards dealing with auxiliary and international languages / George Bernard Shaw -- Excerpts from Bernard Shaw's Will -- On the Will of Bernard Shaw, excerpts from decision by Lord Justice Charles Harman -- Comments on the decision in re Shaw's Will ; My fair ladies, and gentlemen ; Introduction to Shaw's alphabet ; On the Shaw and initial teaching alphabets / Sir James Pitman.